Bruno Kocher

Bruno Kocher (16 May 1912-7 December 1944) was a Hauptmann (Captain) in the German Wehrmacht during World War II. He was killed in action while commanding a machine-gun unit at the Battle of Huertgen Forest.

Biography
Bruno Koecher was born in Dusseldorf, German Empire on 16 May 1912, and he enlisted in the Reichswehr in 1932. Kocher rose in the ranks of the Wehrmacht under Nazi Germany and was sent to join the 272nd Volksgrenadier Division in France in 1944, seeing combat against the Allied Powers in Western Europe. Kocher commanded several machine-gun positions on Hill 400 in the Hurtgenwald forest region of western Germany during the Siegfried Line campaign and the Battle of Huertgen Forest, and he was killed when the US 2nd Ranger Battalion stormed the hill and breached the German bunkers.